My closest encounter with wildlife was a raccoon , we were cutting a tree in my house then was a family of raccoons inside, cutting the tree mama raccoon jumped from the other side of the tree was very close to me I jumped too I was very scared, raccoon ran away

Oooh, yours was one frightening experience. I can relate because a lion almost mauled me at a zoo in Nigeria. I was young and fearless (or just crazy), I breached their safety protocol and decided to cross the metal bars to get a close up shot of a lioness. The only thing between me and the lioness was a flimsy wired fence. The shock of my camera's flashlights irritated the lioness and she came at me, lurching at the fence that separated us. All of a sudden it occurred to me that to a lion I am nothing but prey. I ran as fast as I could to the exit, because I knew without doubt that another lurch at the fence will completely bring it down. If the wired fence had given way before I got out, I would have made headline news that day as he second person mauled by a lion in that same zoo. The first one was a caretaker who forgot to lock the gate to the lion's den while feeding them.

Oooh, yours was one frightening experience. I can relate because a lion almost mauled me at a zoo in Nigeria. I was young and fearless (or just crazy), I breached their safety protocol and decided to cross the metal bars to get a close up shot of a lioness. The only thing between me and the lioness was a flimsy wired fence. The shock of my camera's flashlights irritated the lioness and she came at me, lurching at the fence that separated us. All of a sudden it occurred to me that to a lion I am nothing but prey. I ran as fast as I could to the exit, because I knew without doubt that another lurch at the fence will completely bring it down. If the wired fence had given way before I got out, I would have made headline news that day as he second person mauled by a lion in that same zoo. The first one was a caretaker who forgot to lock the gate to the lion's den while feeding them.

Apparently, the caretaker didn't take care. And you, daring photographer, are something else. I wonder if you would have enjoyed your pictures had you been mauled by that angry lioness. I'm glad you escaped unscathed. And wiser?

I haven't had any encounters with animals quite as exotic as the ones in the book, however, once while I was out hiking I came around a turn on the trail and saw that a fence was down and there were a bunch of cows out. I didn't expect that nor did I expect, on closer inspection, the coyote sitting among them watching me. I stepped backwards back into the trees, pulled out my phone, stepped out again, took a photo, turned around and hiked the other way.
And last summer while camping a bear walked through our site in the middle of the night, that was cool.

Oooh, yours was one frightening experience. I can relate because a lion almost mauled me at a zoo in Nigeria. I was young and fearless (or just crazy), I breached their safety protocol and decided to cross the metal bars to get a close up shot of a lioness. The only thing between me and the lioness was a flimsy wired fence. The shock of my camera's flashlights irritated the lioness and she came at me, lurching at the fence that separated us. All of a sudden it occurred to me that to a lion I am nothing but prey. I ran as fast as I could to the exit, because I knew without doubt that another lurch at the fence will completely bring it down. If the wired fence had given way before I got out, I would have made headline news that day as he second person mauled by a lion in that same zoo. The first one was a caretaker who forgot to lock the gate to the lion's den while feeding them.

Apparently, the caretaker didn't take care. And you, daring photographer, are something else. I wonder if you would have enjoyed your pictures had you been mauled by that angry lioness. I'm glad you escaped unscathed. And wiser?

Any wiser? Well, I must say that the fear of lions is still in me. That should be enough to keep me wary of all predators going forward.

I've seen lions and tigers when we visited the zoo once. They allow you to take pictures with tigers. I couldn't even force a smile while standing beside the tiger, but my companions enjoyed the experience.

Well in my country people still hunt once in a while so i've seen a deer and some other animal i can't name(though i'm sure i've seen on national geography wild once) but they were both dead, a bat has entered my hostel room once(had to chase it out), i've seen and killed two scorpions in my boarding school(both in different schools) and i've had snakes in my backyard, all promptly killed except for a few escapees(if you can don't have mercy on a poisonous animal, it might accidentally poison you on purpose). So if that counts for wild life then yeah i've seen some.